Text below to eventually appear in next official release notes while code is now in for those that can compile their own builds.
- mu100: Make some noise [O. Galibert]
Two sample roms are missing, sad. Volume is not taken into account yet (because the registers are not yet understood), pan is though. Don't even think about reverb or effects :-)
Current code plays a scale in a loop. Comment the timer alloc in machine_reset to kill that.
Demo song (missing lots of sounds, because roms): U then > until demo then ENTER ENTER. -
This was first added many years earlier as shown from older posts when MAME and MESS were separate at the time even though source code had already been merged between the two projects at the time before it all became MAME.
Take into account that the code (preliminary) along with a couple missing roms, sound won't be as good for time being. Hopefully some artwork contributors can create some visual artwork later. Too bad Darkmoe isn't around to make videos of latest items running in MAME whenever a new release is out. I would have liked to see what he could have done with this.
wolfgangSvukan has a play channel list including showing what the MU100R can do. Other hardware items also shown of what they can do in hands of a quality musician.
An example of Yamaha MU100R with hardware faults and all with pcb starting to go sour. I don't know if the pcb design was faulty or if cheap chips were used, but emulation to the rescue once again. Thankfully Yamaha did not have the Sega thought idea of: "Let's protect the hardware like Sega did with FD 1094 cpu and have equipment stop working after ten years of service."
A demo of the last of my three Yamaha MU100R synth modules that I sold on Ebay recently. This is a faulty synth with the XG mode being at fault, as you will hear in the video. Everything else works as normal although a loud buzzing noise that surges from nowhere usually happens with this synth, and can be stopped with a few firm taps to the top or bottom of the unit. I hope to demo this happening in the next video. You can see me near the end of this video, trying to induce this buzzing fault but it did not occur.
Apart from the buzzing, the exact same faults with this unit are to be found on probably hundreds across the world. I'm not totally sure why this is although when my first unit went in for repair to Yamaha under guarantee in November 1998, the repair tech guy mentioned dry solder joints. My unit returned fully working again but only lasted a further six months, before the same faults arose again. I was going to have it repaired again but figured they would only do the same quality of repair, so for the next eleven years it was used to host further PLG expansion boards, and as an FX processor.
In my opinion this is one of the most innovative and powerful rackmount GM synths ever made, and has gone largely unnoticed with the Korg and Roland synths being more trendy to own. I prefer power and creativity over trendiness anyday and this module has it in spades! Anyway this video has been made to show the common fault that occurs on many units out there in the world.
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